10 May 2011, 9:33 am
Now this is when I would really like to have access to all the old threads--particularly the ones from almost exactly 4 years ago. I remember some people wagering that a certain presidential candidate would be long forgotten by now.
Specifically, after one of the debates, this candidate was accused of 'spamming' the polls. In that particular debate, he made a name for himself with a heated exchange with one of the front-runners in that election.
We all know who I'm talking about. Is it time to say your predictions were wrong?
Juan Williams says:
And
Who polls the best against Obama from the GOP?
Specifically, after one of the debates, this candidate was accused of 'spamming' the polls. In that particular debate, he made a name for himself with a heated exchange with one of the front-runners in that election.
We all know who I'm talking about. Is it time to say your predictions were wrong?
Juan Williams says:
It was almost exactly four years ago when Ron Paul sparred with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani in a 2008 Republican presidential primary debate. Paul said about the role of U.S. policy in bringing about the 9/11 attacks: “They attack us because we’ve been over there, we’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We’ve been in the Middle East. I think Reagan was right. We don’t understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics.”
Giuliani shot back: “That’s an extraordinary statement of someone who lived through the attack of Sept. 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn’t really mean that.”
Who could have guessed that, four years later, Giuliani would be off the stage while the persistent Paul is growing, exhibiting more and more power in Republican politics, shaping the GOP debates and in the absence of any strong establishment candidate, looking like a strong contender for the party’s 2012 nomination?
And
Who polls the best against Obama from the GOP?
Who does best against Obama? Paul. The congressman from Texas, who also ran as a libertarian candidate for president in 1988 and who is well liked by many in the tea party movement, trails the president by only seven points (52 to 45 percent) in a hypothetical general election showdown. Huckabee trails by eight points, with Romney down 11 points to Obama.
